Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 39478, Samuel Eastman, Continental N.H.

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Continental N. H.
Eastman, Samuel
S. 39478
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15530 VERMONT R
Samuel Eastman
of Shafford in the state of Vermont who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Whitecomb of the Massachusetts line, for the term of 1 year
Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence the 7 of Apr r 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 15 of Octo r 1819 and sent to Josiah Dana Esq r Judge Chelsea Vermont
Arrears to 4th of Sept r 1819 $155.40 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 Mar ch 1819 27.80 $183.20
{ Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818. }

I am the undersigned of the County of Orange and State of Vermont at Wilton of the United States of America and now have been lately and say that I enlisted in the year 1875 under Capt. Estlin in Col. Root's Regiment. I enlisted for 8 months. The Army at Boston or Roxbury was at Brattleboro. I served the term of my enlistment and then left. I again for some years under Capt. Garrison in Col. White's Regiment served the term of one year in the Continental Army was mustered from Boston. I re-enlisted and then was continued until my time of enlistment expired and my enlistment was in the year 1876 and was discharged. I afterwards took a tour to Bennington was under Genl. Stark. I was in the Battle at Bennington was out about two weeks and returned home. I am 62 years of age. I have become old and infirm and almost part Debtor. I have a small farm but I have considerable Embarrassed with debts owing to such a degree that I cannot pay my honest debts without selling my farm and thus depriving me of the only support which I am dependent for my advancement. Therefore under myself in need of assistance from my Government to make my life tolerably comfortable. I have never received any pension from Government and thereby relinquish all claim to any as such pension is provided by a act of Congress making provision for the Officers & Soldiers who served in the Revolutionary War. My first enlistment was in the New Hampshire line and my second enlistment in the Massachusetts line. Therefore pray that I may be placed on the pension list agreeably to the provisions of said act as an old and honorable soldier.  Chas. Root Oct. 28th 1888  Jas. M. Estlin

State of Vermont } Chelsea April 7. 1818 personally Orange County } appeared Samuel Eastman and made oath that the within written declaration by him subscribed is true
Before me
Isaiah Dana Chief Judge of Orange County Court
I do hereby certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Samuel Eastman did serve in the revolutionary War on the continental establishment as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy and I also certify that it appears to my satisfaction that he is poor and needs the assistance of his country for support and I now transmit the proceedings taken and had before me to the Secretary of the War department pursuant to the aforemen- tioned Act of Congress
Isaiah Dana Chief Judge of Orange County Court
Samuel Eastman Stratford April 7. 1818

General Eastman Stratford
April 28 th 1819
against the common Enemy and I also certify that it appears to my satisfaction that he is just and near the assistance of his country for support and I now transmit the proceedings taken and had before me to the Secretary of the War department pursuant to the provisions of Act of Congress
Isiah Dama Chief Judge of Orange County Court
State of Vermont } Chelsea Orange County } Orange County Clerk's Office May 6 th 1819. J. H. E. S. Saugahden Clerk of Orange County Court hereby certify that the foregoing Esq r before whom the foregoing Declaration was taken is Chief Judge
of Orange County Court acting under the authority of the State of Vermont and that his name subscribed to the foregoing Certificate is in his own hand writing Attest J. H. E. S. Saugahden Clerk of Orange County Court

aw Samuel Eastman S. 39478
December 19, 1914.
Hon. Charles B. Smith. — his letter re Joseph Howard's claim
House of Representatives.
My dear Mr. Smith:
In response to your letter of the sixteenth instant, and the enclosed letter of Mr. John H. Clogston of Buffalo, New York, I have the honor to furnish you with the histories of the Revolutionary War pensioners, Joseph Howard and Samuel Eastman, and advise you that a careful search of the records fail to show a Revolutionary War claim filed by or for Samuel Eastman of Captain Hutchins' company, Colonel Stark's regiment, or of Captain Wait's company, Colonel Stark's regiment or who served under Lieutenant Worthley, as described by Mr. Clogston.
Your letter from the Adjutant General U. S. A. is herewith returned.
From the papers in the claim W. File No. 24,454, it appears that Joseph Howard was born at Norwich, Connecticut, September 28, 1758, and resided at West Springfield, Massachusetts in 1776. He served from August 1, 1776, for five months and five days, in Captain Nathan Rowley's company.

Colonel John Jacobs' regiment, and again from October 6, 1779, for three months in Captain John Carpenter's company of Guards at Springfield, Massachusetts.
He was allowed pension on an application executed August 15, 1832, while a resident of Belcherstown, Massachusetts, and he died January 17, 1838.
He married December 17, 1783, Eunice Carrier of West Springfield, Massachusetts. She was allowed pension on her application executed August 8, 1838, at which time she was eighty-four years old and a resident of Belcherstown, Massachusetts.
There is no mention of children in said claim.
From the papers in the claim Sur. File No. 39,478. it appears that Samuel Eastman enlisted in 1775, under Captain Hutchins in Colonel Reed's New Hampshire regiment, was at the battle of Bunker's Hill and served eight months. He enlisted at Medford, Massachusetts, in December 1775, and served until January 1, 1777, in Captain Abner Cranston's company, Colonel Asa Whitcomb's Continental regiment from Massachusetts. He was also in the battle of Bennington and at this time served two months under General Stark, names of other officers not stated.
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 7, 1818, at which time he was sixty-two years of age and a resident of Strafford, Orange County, Vermont.

The date and place of his birth and residence at enlistment are not stated, nor is there any data on file as to his family.
For the date of soldier's death or last payment of his pension and name of the person to whom it was paid, application should be made to the Auditor for the Interior Department, U. S. Treasury Department, citing as follows:
"Samuel Eastman, Certificate No. 15,530, issued October 18, 1819, rate $96. per annum to commence April 7, 1818, under the Act of March 18, 1818, at the Vermont Agency."
Very truly yours,
Commissioner. - - - - -

39 478 INVALID. Rev
1914 Dec. 19. History to Hon. Elias B. Smith M.C.
File No. 39 478
Samuel Eastman Ph. Her. Mar.
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index: — Vol. 8 , Page 146
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Alexander Church Affid a proving the names of his children
Alexander Church Declarations
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

I Alexander Church of Bangor the county of Penobscot do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Samuel Estlin of Penobscot and know him before the war. I know that he was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. I saw him the said Samuel at the house of Nathaniel house in Dugester he was in. Capt. Abner Crosby company in Col. Asa White's Regiment The said Church was a soldier in Capt. Danford's company in the same Regiment the first of any acquaintance with the said Samuel was at in March 1776 at Gooch's. Nathaniel's house in Dugester and continued with him in the same Regiment till the last days of Dec. 1776 at Hancock Church Discharge
August 23 rd 1819 State of Vermont } August 23 rd 1819 Then personally appeared Orange County ss } the within named Alexander Church with whom I have been long acquainted and whom I esteem a likely credible & disinterested editor and made solemn oath that the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed is just and true Before me Philip Sargent (Justice of the Peace for and within the County of Orange and State of Vermont
State of Vermont Orange County ss Affidavit August 24 th A.D. 1819. — I hereby certify that Phillip Sargent of Orange in the County of Orange age 36 before whome the foregoing Affidavit was taken is a true & the peace within & for the County of Orange acting under the oath of the State, and that his name & his service to the foregoing is in his own handwriting Attest J. C. G. S. Langhlin Clerk of Orange County Court

Jonathan Eastman's Affid. proving the Service of Samuel Eastman
Adm o
Chelsea, Vt.

Jonathan Eastman of Hanover in the County of Hillsborough and State of New Hampshire, testify and say that I am well acquainted with Samuel Eastman of Stratford in Vermont, and know that he was a Soldier in the Revolu- tionary War. I saw him the said Samuel who now is before me in Boston in the month of March 1776, I then understood that the said Samuel was enlisted, (after having served for 8 months in the year 1775) for the year's service, and I afterward saw him at Piccadilly in August, Sept. and Oct. of 1776. I was a Soldier engaged for five months the same year at Piccadilly and have no doubt, but the said Samuel served out his enlistment, as I well recollect that he did not arrive home until sometime in January 1777. The said Samuel served in the Massachusetts Line and the Department served in New Hampshire the Regiment and Company to which he belonged, I therefore do not recollect Jonathan Eastman July 22, 1819.
State of New Hampshire } July 22. 1819. Hillsborough ss. } Personally appeared

The within named Jonathan Eastman with whom I have been long acquainted and whom I esteem a highly credible disinterested Witness, and made solemn oath that the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed is just and true
Before me Joshua Darling
Justice of the Peace of the Peace, for & within the County of Hillsborough and State of New H.
Hillsborough ss. State of New Hampshire.
I Moses Eastman Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said County of Hillsborough hereby certify that Joshua Darling Esq whose name is subscribed to the above certificate is one of the associate Justices of said Court, a Justice of the Peace within and for said County of Hillsborough & Union District, and that the same is his proper signature, and that full faith & credit ought be given to his official acts -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court this 28 th Day of August Anno Domini 1819
Moses Eastman Clerk

Samuel Eastman
Isaiah Dana
Esq.
Chelsea, Vt.
Rec d Sept. 9. 1819.
Enter the decision on this case in the book of entries.

State of Vermont } On this 31 st day of August 1819 Orange County } before me the Subscribed Chief Judge of Orange County Court in the State of Vermont personally appeared Samuel Eastman aged Sixty three years resides in Strafford in the County of Orange and State of Vermont being by me first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the pension made by the late Act of Congress, "intitled an Act for a relief of certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary War" That he the said Samuel Eastman enlisted for the term of one year in the month of December 1775, (the particular day he cannot recollect) in Milford in the Commonwealth of Mass- achusetts in the Company commanded by Captain Eastman Eastman of the Regiment commanded by Colonel Whitcomb in the line of the State of Massachusetts on the continental establishment, that he continued to serve in said Company in the service of the United States until the first day of January A.D. 1777, when he was discharged from service in Picoaderoga in the State of New York, and that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support, and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said service.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Isaiah Dana Chief Judge of Orange County Court
Isaiah Dana Chief Judge of Orange County Court as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Samuel Eastman did serve in the revolutionary War as stated in the preceding declaration against the Commonwealth for the term of nine months at which time on the Continental establishment and was discharged

that the said Samuel Eastman did serve in the revolution War as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy for the term of nine months at a time on the continental establishment; and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary for the War department, pursuant to the directions of the aforesaid Act of Congress.
I am also satisfied that he met the assistance of his country for support. I also certify that the first declar- ation was made on the Seventh day of April 1818
The foregoing whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of our court this 31 st day of September One thousand eight hundred and nineteen
Isiah Dusenbrey Judge of Orange County Court